Visitors to the site also were focused on stories surrounding meat and poultry production in the US, especially when animal rights groups aimed their undercover videos at industry operations in an attempt to force change in production practices. While keeping an eye on state of businesses in the industry, readers also paid attention to those who passed away in 2012.
MeatPoultry.com’s top stories for 2012 were:
Walmart ends National Beef contract
Worker dies at Smithfield plant
Christensen Farms CEO dies on hunting trip
Worker dies after accident at Tyson plant
Cargill considering sale of business unit
Narration in undercover video misleading: Grandin
More LFTB fallout: AFA files for bankruptcy
Pilgrim’s announces more layoffs
Bob Evans to close plants
California poultry processor files Chapter 11
